How to make such DVD?

[Remyisme]

I need to know please how do you make a DVD with files, that are not 1GB each? like if i have files like 50 mb and 100 mb, and some others like that. I know that the programm, i use, always makes it to be in one GB, meaning it just takes all my files, and gives them out, all together connected. what programm, does not do this?

[Alex_ander]

No program will join short files if you put each part into a separate VTS. You can still organize sequential playback but the pause in playback may be a bit longer on a physical disc. You can use e.g. TDA and each time add a 'new track' before importing next file.

[jimmalenko]

I need to know please how do you make a DVD with files, that are not 1GB each? like if i have files like 50 mb and 100 mb, and some others like that. I know that the programm, i use, always makes it to be in one GB, meaning it just takes all my files, and gives them out, all together connected. what programm, does not do this?

Can I ask why you think you need VOB files that are not 1 GB ?

It is DVD spec to do this; you use PGCs to play subsets of the content. As mentioned, if this is an absolute necessity, put each file in a different VTS.

[Remyisme]

It's not quite(sp?) a necessity, but i just found out that it is possible, and yes you are wright, that is is dvd spec to do this, but I, have certain, files, that I don't want to connect and they are less than 1gb each, and, I want to be able to watch them as one dvd. But the only programm, i use is womble dvd mpeg video wizard, and I like the programm, only it makes only 1gb parts. If i use this programm, with this files, i think it makes their quality worse, this are dvd hq rip files, and even if womble doesn't reencode them, but makes a stream copy, i think they gain some noise in the picture, also some videos are ntsc, and some pal, so i would like to find out how to make a dvd, without reencoding them, all to pal, or all to ntsc, the way womble does.

[tomlee59]

The usual way to do this is to author the DVD with each clip as a separate title (that was what the other person meant by separate VTS). The VOB file will end up whatever length corresponds to the bitrate*runtime product for your parameters.

If you want one clip to play right after the other without user intervention, you can author the disc to make that happen.

[Alex_ander]

The usual way to do this is to author the DVD with each clip as a separate title (that was what the other person meant by separate VTS).

Separate titles not necessarily belong to different VTS's. If they are in the same VTS (up to 99), in most cases they are packed in 1GB VOB file set.
How to separate files between VTS's, depends on the authoring application used. E.g. in TDA a 'track' created by user, corresponds to a VTS in final DVD and (unlike DVDLab) each VTS has a single title - with this particular software.

[guns1inger]

They are not connected just because they are in the same VOB or titleset. programs such as VOB2MPG will extract multiple titles from a single titleset.

If you go down the path of putting a 50 MB video in one title set and a 100MB video in the next etc then you will end up wasting a lot of disc space. There is a limit to the number of titlesets you can have, and it is far less than the number of titles you can have. Therefore you may well end up with a lot of DVDs that total less than one GB for no good reason at all.

[lordsmurf]

I sometimes wonder how people end up with these odd ideas.

[johns0]

I sometimes wonder how people end up with these odd ideas.

Cause people are human!

[usually_quiet]

If someone wanted to replace small clips or copy them it would be easier to do that if each clip occupies one titleset, even if it is an inefficient use of disc space.

When I re-author TV shows I have recorded, I routinely place each episode in its own titleset. That way it is esier to replace one with a better recording if it turns out something is wrong with it. Unlike the OPa situation, most of what I record is close to 1 GB or close to 2 GB total, so there are never many titles on the disc.